'The soldiers then returned to the room and executed all the injured' - Fahed al-Khaldi, Gaza residentThe survivors, among them Fahed’s older brother Mohammed, were then queued in the yard of the house, before being stripped of their clothes. After they were frisked and interrogated, they were given specific directions by the soldiers to flee if they wanted to live. They left, fearing for their lives, and left behind those killed and wounded. “The soldiers then returned to the room and executed all the injured,” Fahed said. Fatima, who was pregnant, was left to bleed to death. Faisal, her four-year-old son wounded in the raid, survived and was later taken to al-Shifa hospital. Palestinian boy Faisal al-Khaldi, four, wounded by Israeli fire on 21 December 2023 in Gaza City (Provided) There, his uncle Mohammed was shocked to hear that the young boy needed six surgical operations, which doctors at the hospital - destroyed earlier by Israeli forces - did not have the resources to perform. Faisal’s intestine and bladder were ruptured and he remains in critical condition at al-Shifa, according to Fahed. “I posted many appeals on social media and through journalists and tried to contact the International Committee of the Red Cross to move Faisal to another hospital in the south but all that went in vain,” he said. “All we want now is to urgently treat Faisal.”
'[Alleged summary killings] raise alarm about the possible commission of a war crime' - UN High Commissioner for Human RightsHowever, the Israeli army admitted earlier this month to killing three Israeli captives in Gaza who were shirtless, waving a white flag, and calling for help in Hebrew. Last week, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said it “received disturbing information” about one of the cases of alleged summary executions. The killings were confirmed, the UN agency said, but verification of the circumstances were still under way. “The Israeli authorities must immediately institute an independent, thorough and effective investigation into these allegations, and if found to be substantiated, those responsible must be brought to justice,” OHCHR said in a statement. It added that the occurence of killings “raises alarm about the possible commission of a war crime” and comes “in the wake of earlier allegations concerning the deliberate targeting and killing of civilians at the hands of Israeli forces”.
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